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T1 - Have We Taken On Too Much?
T2 - CHI 2022
AU - Bremer, Christina
AU - Knowles, Bran
AU - Friday, Adrian
N1 - © ACM, 2022. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3517609
PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - By CHI 2022, fifteen years will have passed since the emergence of Sustainable HCI (SHCI), which now constitutes an important subfield of HCI. In this paper, we draw on two SHCI corpora to ask: Has SHCI progressed? How has the field responded to prominent critiques? Have we identified and adopted constructive strategies for impacting environmental unsustainability? We further show the wide array of competencies SHCI researchers have been called to develop, and how this has been reflected in subsequent work. Our analysis identifies significant shifts in the SHCI landscape, toward research that is diverse and holistic, but also away from efforts to address the urgent climate crisis. We posit that SHCI has tended to take on far more than it could reasonably expect to deliver, and propose 'Green Policy informatics' as a pathway that enables SHCI to leverage a more traditional HCI skillset in addressing climate change.
AB - By CHI 2022, fifteen years will have passed since the emergence of Sustainable HCI (SHCI), which now constitutes an important subfield of HCI. In this paper, we draw on two SHCI corpora to ask: Has SHCI progressed? How has the field responded to prominent critiques? Have we identified and adopted constructive strategies for impacting environmental unsustainability? We further show the wide array of competencies SHCI researchers have been called to develop, and how this has been reflected in subsequent work. Our analysis identifies significant shifts in the SHCI landscape, toward research that is diverse and holistic, but also away from efforts to address the urgent climate crisis. We posit that SHCI has tended to take on far more than it could reasonably expect to deliver, and propose 'Green Policy informatics' as a pathway that enables SHCI to leverage a more traditional HCI skillset in addressing climate change.
KW - Sustainable HCI
KW - sustainability
KW - climate change
KW - reflective HCI
KW - policy
U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3517609
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3517609
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 41:1-41:11
BT - CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -